Kubernetes liveness and readiness probes can be used to make a service more robust and more resilient, by reducing operational issues and improving the quality of service. However, if these probes are not implemented carefully, they can severely degrade the overall operation of a service, to a point where you

This is the penultimate article in a series entitled Securing Kubernetes for Cloud Native Applications, and follows our discussion about securing the important components of a cluster, such as the API server and Kubelet. In this article, we’re going to...

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Introduction As part of my exploration of Kubernetes, while working on a project I wanted to execute commands inside a pod. Rather then forcing the container to have some specific behaviour, I wanted to utilize the API mechanism exposed as the kubectl exec subcommand. While investigating, I found that exec doesn’t yet sport extensive documentation, …

Get an introduction to the world of Ansible Playbook Bundle development and learn how the Ansible Service Catalog, the Broker and the Bundles provide an automation layer above the traditional templates that will give you some extras capabilities like clustering, service binding, integration with external systems.